Borris Yeltsin dies

[honestDave]

RIP

[FireBlade]

bit of a shit post? to lazy to paste in any info?

[Roach-Rampino]

Any links to support this Honest Dave?

[burner1]

No link? must have been a personal phone call from yeltsies missus then lol.

[Freddy]

Yeah nothing on BBC yet lol

[bt2k1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin

Doesn't say how he died though

[Lee Macro]

No link but banner on top of CNN website.....

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/

[Epiphany]

Wikipedia is hardly a credible source though. I could change it to say he's just become the first person to walk on Mars.

[Freddy]

Pissed up and faced down in a pool of his own piss I bet.

[Lee Macro]

From Sky News. Very sketchy

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...,00.html?f=rss

[cyprus]

Anyone choose him in the sweep?

[FireBlade]

nah dont think so

[honestDave]

bit of a shit post? to lazy to paste in any info?

didn't have any other info to post at the time. didn't want to just make up shit before we had any confirmation.

[4me2]

HOS for lack of effort.

[Nikki]

ill complete your post dave

Boris Yeltsin, who played a key role in the Soviet Union's demise and became Russia's first president, has died aged 76, the Kremlin says.
Mr Yeltsin - who had a history of heart trouble - died of heart failure in hospital at 1545 (1145 GMT).

He came to power after being promoted by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, a man he then outmanoeuvred.

He won international acclaim as a defender of democracy when in August 1991 he mounted a tank in Moscow.

In what became one of the defining moments of his career, Mr Yeltsin rallied the people against an attempt to overthrow Mr Gorbachev's era of glasnost and perestroika.

In another episode of high drama, two years later he ordered Russian tanks to fire on their own parliament in October 1993, when the building was occupied by hardline political opponents.

More info see below link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6584481.stm

[GameKing]

Anyone choose him in the sweep?

buahahahaha